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A nude cooking show is set to launch this month on the adult channels in Hong Kong.

26 year old Flora Cheung, a model with no formal culinary training, is the host of Ice Fire Kitchen, which debuts on adult channels in Hong Kong this month. In each 30-minute episode, she picks out ingredients from the city’s famous wet markets, fully dressed. When she gets into the kitchen, she strips down to her birthday suit, slips on a see-through apron and cooks up some dishes.

The show will be broadcast on the Ice Fire channel on NOW TV, Hong Kong Broadband Network and TVB Pay Vision.

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Because they want to control your thinking…

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Here’s a good motto: “Just buy it, god damn it.”

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Three years ago, Belgian artist Wim Delvoye’s tattooed Louis Vuitton pigs were banned from SH Contemporary, Shanghai’s largest contemporary art fair. This time, he’s at it again, tattooing more odious designs, and on more pigs!

The 46 year old artist, who claims to be a vegetarian, has been tattooing live pigs since 1997. He now runs a pig farm in the suburb’s of Beijing’s Shunyi District, where he works with Chinese tattoo artists to ink pigs with an array of designs, from Louis Vuitton logos and Walt Disney cartoon characters to Chinese motifs.

Before each pig is tattooed, it is first made to sign a model release form, sedated, shaved and applied with Vaseline. The tattoos are then allowed to grow on the pigs for a while before they are sold to “art” collectors from all over the world.

In 2008, the skins could fetch about 10,200 USD a piece. Today, each canvas can set you back by as much as 1 million RMB (around 152,000 USD), if reports by Chinese news agencies are to be believed.

The question is: do you want your piece of art dead or alive?

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In a case which doctors describe as a “miracle” and has been widely covered by the Chinese media and discussed on the internet, surgeons in southern China have removed a rusty, 10cm (4in) blade from the skull of a man who said it had been stuck in there for four years.

The 30 year old man, Li Fuyan, had been suffering from severe headaches, bad breath and breathing difficulties but never knew why. Li told doctors he had been stabbed in the lower right jaw by a robber four years ago and the blade broke off inside his head without anyone realising it.

Surgeons worked cautiously to remove the badly corroded blade without shattering it. “We checked his mouth, but no wound or scar has been found. It is very strange as to how the blade got into his head,” Xu Wen, deputy director of the hospital’s stomatology department, told state broadcaster CCTV.

Dr Eugene Flamm, chairman of neurosurgery at New York’s Montefiore medical centre, said x-ray images of the man’s head posted on the hospital’s website show the knife sitting behind the man’s throat, having missed the carotid artery and other key structures.

via The Guardian

The police force in Changhua (a small county in Taiwan) seem to have very unorthodox methods in collecting evidence.

Two undercover cops, posed as customers, visited an “erotic snack bar” and played dice with two naked Vietnamese bargirls. The bet was that if the boys lost, they would pay NT$100 (US$3.41) but if the girls lost, the boys got to pluck a pubic hair off the girl with a pair of clippers. The cops lost 2 times and won 6 times.

After the cops had their fun, they arrested the two women. But in a controversial decision, the judge ruled that the women and the establishment they worked at did not violate decency laws. Therefore the two bargirls were innocent.

This story raises many questions like what level of indecency is required to violate the decency laws, did the cops really require that much evidence, what would the bargirls do when all their pubic hair is gone, but most importantly, is a bargirl’s pubic hair only worth NT$100?

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Wong Tai Sin Temple is one of the most famous shrines in Hong Kong. Every Chinese New Year, thousands rush towards the temple to burn incense and pray.

This year, the Wong Tai Sin Temple has gone for a revolutionary technological upgrade.

The 90-year-old temple has added a new underground prayer room decked with gold, marble, LED lights and motion detectors. It features a vaulted echo-enhancing ceiling emblazoned with a planetarium-like digital replica of the Hong Kong sky that rotates in accordance with the seasons. Two HK$3 million floor-to-ceiling wall hangings, made of marble and rare gemstones, adorn the entranceway. Worshippers enter the hall and deposit a written prayer before one of 60 statues representing the gods of the Chinese zodiac, which responds with flashing lights and bursts of smoke.

This 10,000-square-feet chamber costed HK$100 million (US$13 million) and took 3 years to complete.

The modernization of the 2,500-year-old religion has inspired both awe and disapproval. Further adding to the controversy is the new prayer hall’s entrance fee (HK$100; HK$50 for seniors), which makes Wong Tai Sin the first prayer facility in Hong Kong to charge admittance. A prayer offering at the temple’s automated statues costs an extra HK$300. Sik Sik Yuen, the Taoist nonprofit organization that runs Wong Tai Sin, says the fees are required for the maintenance of the new hall.

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Taiwan has some of the craziest stories.

A convenience store employee had his face rubbed with feces by an angry customer who tried to use the store’s bathroom. The customer urgently needed to shit but was faced with a locked toilet door. Unable to hold it in anymore, the customer let it all slip out. Being more angry than embarrassed, this customer started going on a rampage which ended with poo everywhere.

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A Taiwanese sporting goods brand marketed their “no pants day” campaign by deploying a group of Taiwanese models on the subway. Since it’s “no pants day”, the models are obviously required to not wear any pants. The models wandered around the subway looking very comfortable showing off their panties.

I wish everyday is a no pants day!

Check the video below:

via Shanghaiist.

Hot on the heels of cadmium contaminated rice comes the latest health warning. It seems that cucumbers grown in the Shandong Province may contain artificial growth hormones. Farmers produce the liquid hormone using compounds from birth control pills. Although the effects of eating such cucumbers have not been confirmed, it is safe to say that everyone should stay away from them.

These cucumbers with hormones are actually very easy to identify as the flower on top of the cucumber remains healthy, due to the effects of the growth hormones. The hormone injected cucumbers also taste horrible.

Cucumbers with yellow flowers were very popular in wet markets in Jiaonan City, Shandong. The vegetables were considered tender and fresh. “People in the industry all know these cucumbers contain hormones,” a dealer selling cucumbers at a wet market told Qingdao Morning Post. The growth hormone is also available at the market. The seller boasted that the growth hormone makes the cucumber mature 50 percent faster and keeps the flower from drying up.

via Shanghai Daily.

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It’s really here. McDonald’s in Hong Kong has launched McWeddings as an official product offering.

I am speechless. I have joked about a McDonald’s wedding reception on many occasions, but that was an idea to make sure no one comes to my wedding. As someone who was born and raised mainly in Hong Kong, I feel really ashamed of having the title of World’s first McWedding attached to the place I live.

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